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I'm scared to drive over bridges!

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I get the shakes when I drive over a small or big bridge. I'm scared that my car will fall off the bridge.

🙁
 
Originally posted by: Colt45
you're joking?
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There are people with various phobias like that. I knew a woman once who would suffer panic attacks if driving on an interstate or over a bridge.

 
My Wife's sister has a bridge phobia. I can't say I enjoy driving over long bridges (miles long ones) it's definitely not something I fret over. Statistically getting into a bridge accident where you go over you are killed is probably a lot less likely than other kinds of terminations. 😛

Can you swim?

 
I don't really fear them.

In the local paper a few weeks ago a fella went over the side of a bridge and into the river. He had some sort of mechanical failure in his suspension. I believe it was a tie rod end that snapped at ~60mph.

Watch out!

 
I love bridges... heh 🙂

Every time I see one I see how I could better design it in Pontifex though... 🙂
 
as you're falling off the bridge in your car, don't forget to lower your window before the power cuts out on you. 😉
 
A work friend of mine has fear of certain bridges. He doesn't mind the ones that are fairly low and he doesn't mind the ones that look really sturdy. He's deathly afraid of the ones that are high and have inadequate-looking supports or guard rails. He doesn't mind the George Washington because it looks strong, but hates the Whitestone since the towers look too skinny. And he'll drive 100 miles out of his way to avoid the Newburgh-Beacon bridge on i-84 in New York because it's really tall and has guard rails that look too small to stop a tricycle.
 
You're not alone. I'm scared of bridges too.

What's worse is that my mom likes to gamble sometimes so I have to drive her over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Dover Downs or Atlantic City. I hate driving over that bridge! And they are doing construction on it now so they close the middle westbound lane -- even more scary!

Actually the last time I drove it wasn't that bad going east bound. It seemed like they paved it so I didn't get the feeling of driving over metal rails. The west bound was still bad for me.

If only they would allow slots in Laurel or something -- then I would never have to drive over that bridge again.
 
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
A work friend of mine has fear of certain bridges. He doesn't mind the ones that are fairly low and he doesn't mind the ones that look really sturdy. He's deathly afraid of the ones that are high and have inadequate-looking supports or guard rails. He doesn't mind the George Washington because it looks strong, but hates the Whitestone since the towers look too skinny. And he'll drive 100 miles out of his way to avoid the Newburgh-Beacon bridge on i-84 in New York because it's really tall and has guard rails that look too small to stop a tricycle.
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Yeah, all bridges should have thick guard rails.
 
People with poointless, irrational fears of non-dangerous things annoy me.

OMG, not a bridge! Or a bee! or some other thing that's not going to hurt you!

Stop being a pussy and grow up.
 
There used to be a bridge on the Merritt Parkway here in Connecticut that was notorious for scaring the bejeezus out of people. It was pretty tall and had weak looking guardrails which was bad enough. What really freaked people out was that is was a steel grid deck. Rather than a solid roadway it was like driving over a sewer grate, you could look out the car windows and see right through the road all the way down to the water below. It gave even brave drivers the creeps. And to make matters worse, the steel grids gave such a small contact patch with the tires that it was slippery even when dry and when it was raining it was like a skating rink. Pretty funny, when it was raining car would approach the bridge at highway speeds and jam on their brakes right before the deck and cross as 10 mph while the drivers had a white-knuckle death grip on the steering wheel.

It's gone now, it got replaced with a normal asphalt deck and I kind of miss it. That bridge had character.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
People with poointless, irrational fears of non-dangerous things annoy me.

OMG, not a bridge! Or a bee! or some other thing that's not going to hurt you!

Stop being a pussy and grow up.
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Stop being an idiot. Not every mental problem is pointless and not every mental problem can be gotten over by "snapping out of it".

People like you are the annoying ones.
 
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